By KYIV. Dec 1 (Interfax-Ukraine) – High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has announced that the EU will continue its steadfast support to the OSCE and will provide EUR 1.2 million for OSCE demining activities in Ukraine.
"The OSCE institutions and operations continue their efforts to bring stability in this grim environment. The EU will continue its steadfast support to the organization. We will provide EUR 1.2 million for OSCE demining activities in Ukraine," he said on Twitter on Thursday.
The High Representative also recalled that in 1975 the Helsinki Final Act was signed, agreeing on a core set of principles: renouncing the use of force, respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and protecting human rights and freedoms.
"Today, Russia is violating all these OSCE commitments," he said.
"Russia has brought war back to Europe. It is throwing Ukraine into cold and darkness, and beyond its brutal attack on Ukraine and its people, continues its deeply destabilizing role in Georgia’s breakaway regions and Transnistrian region of Moldova. We need to be united against it," Borrell said.
